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In the first year of the collaboration, Telenor has said that it will invest 100 million NOK ($9.4 million) in the project
Norwegian telco Telenor has announced that it will expand an existing partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand its sovereign cloud capabilities.
The investment will see the implementation of AWS’s sovereign-by-design technology in Skygard – a data center currently under construction in Oslo, which is a joint venture between Telenor, renewable energy company Hafslund, and investor HitecVision.
“Telenor is strengthening its collaboration with AWS to power our next wave of growth and innovation,” said Amol Phadke, Telenor’s Executive Vice President and Group Chief Technology Officer in a press release.
“Building on our sovereign cloud posture, Telenor will unlock new opportunities to drive value for our customers and wider society,” he continued.
“Telenor and AWS have a shared commitment to innovation”, said Jan Hofmeyr, VP AWS EC2 Edge.
“We are excited to strengthen our collaboration by accelerating Telenor’s cloud transformation on AWS, and modernize Telenor’s data centres with AWS infrastructure, starting with Sweden and Finland,” he continued.
Telenor will scale its cloud footprint across Sweden, and then expand into Finland.
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